Security Testing Contracts in the North West

Security Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 148 171
Rank change year-on-year +22 +23 -35
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 11 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.40% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.41% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 11
10th Percentile £440 £490 £427
25th Percentile £463 £500 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% - +64.29%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £735 £655 £650
England median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Security Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the North West

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the North West

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the North West

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in the North West

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +16 11 £475 -17.39% 6
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) BrowserStack
1 1 (9.09%) IaaS
1 1 (9.09%) PaaS
1 1 (9.09%) SaaS
1 1 (9.09%) Serverless
1 1 (9.09%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Pa11y
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
1 1 (9.09%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
1 6 (54.55%) Test Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Tester
3 1 (9.09%) SOC Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technologist
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
1 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (63.64%) Load Testing
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Customer Experience
3 5 (45.45%) Exploratory Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Active Listening
4 4 (36.36%) Analytical Thinking
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Contingency Planning
6 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
6 2 (18.18%) SIEM
6 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) Accessibility
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Rapid7
1 3 (27.27%) Sophos
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
2 1 (9.09%) VMware